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by **Void Main** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:44 pm

For the record, this site has been up and running since the day I put it up. Now since this is on my home network there are many things beyond my control. For instance, I have noticed that my cable provider (Charter) likes to bring the network down once or twice a week at 2:00am (GMT-6) usually for around 1 to 1.5 hours. Other than that, I have been very pleased with the availability. Just bear in mind before you blame it on my server (which *is* a cheap piece of junk old PC by the way. Don't worry, have great site backups should a major problem occur).

by **Calum** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:22 am

i didn't blame it on anything. as you said before, there's a lot of stuff out of your range of influence, and i am inclined to think it's problems with the connection somewhere along the way if a site is malfunctioning.

i am always quite surprised on the rare ocassions i hear of an actual server being the cause of a site being unavailable (but then that's because i don't tend to frequent windows sites)

by **X11** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:32 am

I see, what kind of hardware powers this btw?

by **Void Main** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:49 am

X11 wrote:I see, what kind of hardware powers this btw?

A couple or three years ago there was a company on the web called "Microshack". They were selling new machines very cheap so me and a buddy bought a few of them. The specs are roughtly 450Mhz AMD K6-2, 4GB hard drive (in a quick change drive slot), CD-ROM, 64MB RAM (onboard sound, network, and video with up to 8MB shared RAM). It even came with speakers for right at $200 which was a steal a couple of years ago.

Well, I added another 64MB of old RAM I had lying around so I have 120MB usable (the video uses some). X is a *dog* on this machine and it's just plain slow all the way around. I believe my Intel P100 to be about as fast as this dog. I have already burned up two or three hard drives in that stupid quick change hard drive bay (prior to making it the void site). I believe the one I have in it now I just mounted in the normal hard drive bays. So it's more than good enough to be a web server for something like this but you would not want to use it for a desktop. Maybe I'm just extremely spoiled after running this Athlon 1600 which is about 2,486 times faster than the Void server. I'm glad I don't have a Pentium 2.4Ghz or this Athlon would probably seem slow. :)

Right now I just have a bare RH8 install, no KDE, no GNOME, and as a matter of fact I don't even have X installed at all. Who needs that GUI crap anyhoo? Just takes up precious space.

by **Calum** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 10:53 am

that machine doesn't sound too much worse than my real desktop computer

by **Doogee** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:07 am

Once i get it back from my father, my server will be a P2-mmx 266mhz 2mb AGP Grafx 96 meg ram, PCI network and all that. Im gonna host STUFF on it h4wr h4wr phear my STUFF!!!!!!!!!

by **Linux Frank** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:13 am

That machine almost is my system. Same processor.

by **dishawjp** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:23 pm

You guys with your hot machines. My RH 6.2 desktop is a P166 w/48 MB of RAM. Of course I do have a decent P4 1.8GHz w/ 256 MB RAM for my RH 8.0 box :-)

Jim (aka DOSman in another place)

by **Void Main** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:11 pm

Hey DOSMAN! Nice to see you here (I'm done at the other place). Yeah, I do have a couple of P100 machines in the house doing various things. One is Samba PDC/DNS/DHCP and the other is a firewall/proxy server. They have been chugging away for years and years with no problem. One I have RH6 and the Samba machine is RH8 (and only has a 1GB drive in it). They work great!

by **X11** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 9:14 pm

Doogee wrote:Once i get it back from my father, my server will be a P2-mmx 266mhz 2mb AGP Grafx 96 meg ram, PCI network and all that. Im gonna host STUFF on it h4wr h4wr phear my STUFF!!!!!!!!!

Overclock it to 300mhz (i do that with my serva).

by **dishawjp** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 12:24 pm

Hi Void!

Thanks for the welcome. I love your site and have been spending a lot less time at the other place.

Linux has given a lot of my old hardware a "new lease on life" and it would have been junk if I had decided to stay on the M$ treadmill.

Thanks for all your help in gaining my freedom :-D

Jim

by **X11** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 1:32 am

Is it just me or are there MANY others to. Where else do you talk voidmain.

by **Void Main** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 1:49 am

I ran across this little hole in the wall less than a week ago and am growing sort of fond of it.

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